Who makes Vizio?

[mugupo]

Originally Posted by Ricshoe

Once again, you seem to come up short on the facts. Vizio 'offices' may be based in the US, but it is a Chineee company in just about every aspect. The sets are made in China with Chinese parts by Chinese workers. They are hardly a "US brand".

No, you got most the fact wrong, the part are form japanese company, not china. Their design and test the tv in U.S. just produce them is in elsewhere.

Those korean and japas car company has more u.s. made than those u.s. auto company.

[maverick1972]

Someone told me that Vizio was actually a subsidiary of Sanyo

[acook4]

Visio will always be 1 to 2, maybe even 3 years behind in technology. Real manufacturers recoup their R&D costs and then license or sell parts or technology to "marketing companies" like Visio who then sells it cheaper. They recently introduced and LED backlit LCD while they have been available from Samsung for a while. Samsung is still making money on the back-end too. What bothers me is that they market that their an American company, when their really just a front for Taiwanese, er Chinese manufacturers. If we ever went to war with China I wonder if they would continue selling us LCD's for our tanks, planes and warships. Hell, they probably make the whole thing. They are fine TV's for grandpa though.

[Jeff Kleist]

Typically it takes the Chinese that long to reverse engineer the products other people R&D'd. They actually tried to pass a law not too long ago that all foreign companies manufacturing there had to have a Chinese partner with full access to the IP (so they didn't have to do any work at all).

That one went over like a brick, and a lot of people threatened to pull out of the country so I don't know if it actually made it through

Whether Vizio's current products violate an IP I don't know, but I do know how many of the places that companies like Vizio source from work.

I wouldn't recommend them for people on fixed incomes because they're not made very well, and there's no ability to repair them past the first year. better to spend a little more for support and get better quality to boot

[zombieking]

Maybe Toshiba, because I just bought one and the batteries packed in for the remote was Toshiba brand

[Jeff Kleist]

Maybe Toshiba, because I just bought one and the batteries packed in for the remote was Toshiba brand

Batteries not from a known brand like Duracell or Energizer are generics, they probably bought them as overstock

[Rob71]

Originally Posted by acook4

Visio will always be 1 to 2, maybe even 3 years behind in technology. Real manufacturers recoup their R&D costs and then license or sell parts or technology to "marketing companies" like Visio who then sells it cheaper. They recently introduced and LED backlit LCD while they have been available from Samsung for a while. Samsung is still making money on the back-end too. What bothers me is that they market that their an American company, when their really just a front for Taiwanese, er Chinese manufacturers. If we ever went to war with China I wonder if they would continue selling us LCD's for our tanks, planes and warships. Hell, they probably make the whole thing. They are fine TV's for grandpa though.

China's not ever going to war with us, their economy relies on our purchasing their goods. Not to mention all the money they would lose if they won(loans).

[quest88]

Originally Posted by Rob71

China's not ever going to war with us, their economy relies on our purchasing their goods. Not to mention all the money they would lose if they won(loans).

I like how this thread is going in every direction.

[dobyblue]

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